Just started trying it out today. The ‘Preview’ when invoking it looked ok, so I committed to rendering the image. It’s a 5404 * 5404 image around 30Mp in size, so it’s not small. Then again that’s not a particularly big image. The issue is that I pushed the ‘Render’ button some eight hours ago, and it’s still not done. Either it’s broken, or it’s going to be so slow in its current state as to be unusable.
Needs work, guys & gals.
Absolutely, unusably slow. Was just testing on a 20 Megapixel jpeg image on a m2 MacBook Air. Didn’t wait to render as showing more than an hour.
I have an M1 Mac. My Sony raw files take up to two hours. So far, I have found little or no improvement over the other, faster sharpening tools. But this technology is still at the beta stage and will require more powerful computers.
it possibly looks a little better - hard to compare with the image being darker (and DXO’s no slouch).
I’ll have to play with it when i have a lot of time.
I’m running Windows 11, AMD Ryzen 7 5700G with Radeon Graphics, 3800 Mhz, 8 Core(s), 16 Logical Processor(s) and (RAM) 32.0 GB and the Super Focus is unusable on 24 MP images. Why release something that effectively is a hard stop to a normal workflow if you want to use the function or have multipe large images to process?
I am failing to understand the logic of the recent releases to the general public. My computer isn’t great but it’s no slouch and it takes hours on normal size (out of camera) test images.
I believe that this feature could be quite useful in the future, once improvements are made. Currently, its processing speed is a concern, especially when handling multiple images, as it can be quite slow. After applying the super focus, I noticed that the text became more distorted, with words appearing crooked and lines warping like a ladder the lines are no longer straight. There’s definitely some shifting occurring, and I think it needs further refinement.
Unusable on my M2 Pro mac at this point. Way too slow.
Trying it out myself now. Preview keeps crashing/not rendering, so I thought I’d just try it on the image. All was well, even the time estimate, until it entered “applying more refocus” (not sure if that was the exact message) mode, when it went glacial. But I waited 5 or 10 minutes and then it basically created a new image out of my photo!
I tried the super focus tool (well I tried to but gave up) the rendering time was so monumentally long I gave up so I have never managed to see any results using this. It seems unusable to me as it takes sooooo long to render.
Super focusing.
I use it only on pictures out of focus that are important to me.
Cam is a Canon R5 or 5D MK4.
Rendering time is about 30 o 45 Minutes on a full size image (50MP). I must say the result is amazing, but the rendering times still need improvement. I know it’s still beta.
Wait for the upcoming releases
I have a new MacBook Air M3 and I really liked the sharpening tool with its different options like motion blur, lens blur, natural and so on. I want to get it back! The new Super Focus doesn’t work at all. Why didn’t we get the chance to try the Super Focus Beta version without removing the former sharpening tool? I have the same issues as mentioned by others, I couldn’t even cancel the preview after minutes and minutes of waiting, the program crashed and I had to force quit it. Does anyone have an idea of how to remove this update and get back to the former version?
Seems like Topaz is not taking advantage of Apple M3/M4 + pro/max processing. Are there plans to make Topaz more Mac friendly and to take advantage of Apple Silicon to make things run faster?? Seems like the M1 - M4 chips have plenty of power and that Topaz is unable to utilize that power.
I tried super focus today on a decent photo. The results for the teeth were really wonky and unusable. Just submitting this for feedback so maybe the team can look into it.
I will be sure to share this feedback and example with the team, thanks for sharing here 
Please check this thread also: Super Focus - Topaz Photo AI V3.3
John,
are there minimum requirements to run SuperFocus?
I see exurberating processing times and it gets me wondering the GPU memory or driver is the problem.
Some the other photo software I’m using have set a minimum of 6GB VRam. Because of that, I had to do some upgrading on my 12 year old machine.
I got a 45MP picture processed in 10 min with 12GB VRam and NVidia Studio drivers now.
My first use of Superfocus went well with a good result on a portrait. I did get a warning that I didn’t have enough video memory so things would take longer. It did not say how much GPU memory was needed. (What is the requirement?)
I did get taken aback a bit by the following message:
It actually did render in about 10 minutes, not till the end of time.
Heads up, I tried the Super Focus Beta today. Running on a M1 Mini Mac. Took over five minutes to render. Photo was of a military helicopter, and Super Focus removed all the rivets on the aircraft. Did the opposite of what it was suppose to do. Definitely not a “Mo Betta Betta” as of yet…
Would you mind sharing some examples of the edits you receive?
I have an M2 Mac Studio and it is still rendering after 15 minutes. Regardless of the output I won’t be using it.
